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Bernard Bagnall describes how to get more out of some favourite NRICH investigations.
Why does the tower look a different size in each of these pictures?
In this challenge, buckets come in five different sizes. If you choose some buckets, can you investigate the different ways in which they can be filled?
This project challenges you to work out the number of cubes hidden under a cloth. What questions would you like to ask?
This task depends on groups working collaboratively, discussing and reasoning to agree a final product.
Explore Alex's number plumber. What questions would you like to ask? Don't forget to keep visiting NRICH projects site for the latest developments and questions.
An old game but lots of arithmetic!
In this challenge, you will work in a group to investigate circular fences enclosing trees that are planted in square or triangular arrangements.
One day five small animals in my garden were going to have a sports day. They decided to have a swimming race, a running race, a high jump and a long jump.
Arranging counters activity for adult and child.
Guess the Dominoes for child and adult.
This task requires learners to explain and help others, asking and answering questions.
Explore this interactivity and see if you can work out what it does. Could you use it to estimate the area of a shape?
What can you see? What do you notice? What questions can you ask?
You'll need to work in a group on this problem. Can you use your sticky notes to show the answer to questions such as 'how many boys and girls are there in your group?'.
'What Shape?' activity for adult and child.
In this article for teachers, Bernard gives an example of taking an initial activity and getting questions going that lead to other explorations.
Being stuck is usually thought of as being a negative state of affairs. We want our pupils to succeed, not to struggle. Or do we? This article discusses why being stuck can be fruitful.
This task depends on learners sharing reasoning, listening to opinions, reflecting and pulling ideas together.
In the process of working with some groups of teachers on using questions to promote mathematical thinking, the following table was developed. It provides examples of generic questions that can. . . .
In this article Liz Woodham reflects on just how much we really listen to learners’ own questions to determine the mathematical path of lessons.
Good questioning techniques have long being regarded as a fundamental tool of effective teachers. This article for teachers looks at different categories of questions that can promote mathematical. . . .
A collection of our favourite pictorial problems, one for each day of Advent.
Some questions and prompts to encourage discussion about what experiences you want to give your pupils to help them reach their full potential in mathematics.